5:00 AM ET The coronavirus pandemic continues to impact football’s finances, but unlike recent times, the January window will be open as normal for Europe’s top leagues. (Find out when each league’s window opens and closes here.) 2 Related Clubs across Europe in Italy’s Serie A (€550 million), Germany’s Bundesliga (€415m), France’s Ligue 1 (€375m)
Month: February 2022
1:00 PM ET Will Zalatoris, who just missed winning his first PGA Tour event last week, has withdrawn from this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am after testing positive for COVID-19, the tour announced Tuesday. Zalatoris, the 29th ranked player in the world, will be replaced in the field by Greg Chalmers. Zalatoris, 25, just missed
Mark Boucher faces racism charges.© Twitter The disciplinary hearing against South African head coach Mark Boucher has been postponed until May, the chairperson of the hearing announced on Tuesday. Boucher faces charges of racism, laid by Cricket South Africa, which could result in his dismissal. Advocate Terry Motau said in a statement that he had
7:00 AM ET As we begin our ranking of the top 100 Major League Baseball players to ever take the diamond, it’s time to debate the stars who landed just outside of our list. With that in mind, we asked our MLB experts to find the one player not in this week’s top 100 they
7:00 AM ET Who are the best Major League Baseball stars ever to take the diamond? Dozens of ESPN writers and editors submitted more than 20,000 votes (see full methodology here) to rank the 100 greatest MLB players of all time. Which active stars made the cut? Who ranks too high? Who’s too low? We
8:00 AM ET Every NHL season, there’s a team whose success in the standings doesn’t sync up with some of its underlying numbers, leading fans to ask if they’re “actually this good.” So, are the New York Rangers actually this good? They’re second in the Metro Division with a 29-13-4 record (.674 points percentage). They
6:59 AM ET Associated Press KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — A 10-event run called the International Series will form part of this season’s Asian Tour in a Saudi-funded move that could prove to be a threat to golf’s two main tours. The series is being funded by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and
IPL 2022: Mohammed Siraj has been retained by RCB.© BCCI/IPL Mohammed Siraj has become a household name in the country due to his impressive performances for the Indian national team on many occasions. The pacer has also impressed plenty of fans and experts with his dominating displays in the Indian Premier League and was in
11:16 PM ET Washington offensive tackle Jaxson Kirkland has opted out of the 2022 NFL draft and plans to return to college, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. A two-time, first-team All-Pac-12 selection, Kirkland made the decision after learning an ankle injury he suffered during the season was more significant than originally thought, sources said. He
9:15 PM ET HENDERSON, Nev. — Josh McDaniels acknowledged Monday in his introductory news conference as Las Vegas Raiders coach that he wasn’t ready for the position in his first go-around, more than a decade earlier with the Denver Broncos. After admitting something else to Raiders owner Mark Davis. “When I went to Denver, I
12:56 AM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN HOUSTON — For the second time in 10 days, the Houston Rockets were giving the Golden State Warriors every inch of fight they had in them. And for about three quarters, it looked to be wearing the Warriors down. But then in the fourth, Stephen Curry erupted. He scored 21
4:30 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen Given the financial challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the January transfer window was surprisingly busy as clubs made mid-season moves to try and strengthen their sides. 2 Related According to Transfermarkt, the Premier League (€335 million) spending was actually the second-highest in history, with Liverpool‘s move for FC Porto winger
6:54 PM ET Kevin Holland called an online troll’s bluff by choking him out in a grappling match. Holland, the loquacious UFC fighter nicknamed “Big Mouth,” said he had been getting messages from a guy on social media for months with the man, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner, claiming he could submit Holland. So Holland took
3:30 PM ET Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. — Devils coach Lindy Ruff will miss the next two games following the death of his father in western Canada. The Devils said Monday that Leeson Ruff died on Friday at a hospital in Warburg, Alberta. He was 88 and had been ill. Ruff will miss a home-and-home
2:11 PM ET Wide receiver Deandre Moore Jr. decommitted from Oklahoma on Monday. Moore is the No. 11 prospect in the 2023 class and was the highest ranked commitment in the Sooners class. A 5-foot-11, 190-pound receiver out of Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, California, Moore is the No. 1 receiver overall. He
2:41 PM ET After tests revealed a torn ACL in his left knee, Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles will miss the rest of the season and need to rehabilitate into the start of the 2022-23 season, sources told ESPN. The Jazz revealed a torn ACL that included no other structural damage after an MRI on
11:00 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Artur Beterbiev and Joe Smith Jr. are closing in on a deal for a light heavyweight title unification this summer in New York, sources told ESPN. At the moment, Smith is looking for a purse in the neighborhood of $1.8 million for the proposed ESPN main event; he was offered
Deandra Dottin batting in the Super Over vs South Africa The rain-affected second ODI between West Indies women and South Africa women was largely dominated by the bowlers barring the one-over eliminator. The match in Johannesburg went into a Super Over after both West Indies and South Africa were bowled out for 160 in 41-over-a-side